I mean Gigi really had the cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption to say that to Ru and stick to her guns. And she had every reason to because she was hilarious.
"I understand your concerns but I don't have the same concerns". At the time when Gigi said it I laughed, but now I'm like, damn this needs to be my motto in life.
Probably because Aiden didn't make her character funny: She just kept on repeating how she is old, a heavy drug addict, confused as to what is going on and cranky. Ben's interpretation of Maggie Smith in Downtown Abbey also was a cranky, old, sometimes confused character but there were more layers, she made jokes, she laughed about herself and it was overall just a fun interaction.
I still love that top pic of the other girls reacting to Utica asking Ru to stand up. It just ranges from horrified to Rosé smiling like “oh this is gonna be good” 😂
I always remember then queens of season 11 didn't listen Ru about doing church of Mariah Carey. They didn't know nothing about Mariah and it was the worst acting challenge ever. Also didn't pay off for Ginny Lemon from UK second season. Ginny took Rupaul's advice and tried to be sexy. The look was really bad.
If Aiden was absolutely stuck on Patricia Quinn, she probably should have taken a similar approach to Dela’s Maggie Smith, and kept her in the character everyone knows Patricia Quinn best for; Magenta.
That top on mera with the choker and the bands on her arms, ridiculously cute. It’s giving both hero and villain from a sort of fighting game. Tekken? Street fighter? Mk? Not sure but that energy for sure. Gorgeous.
As Bianca said when Rupaul is giving advice just smile nod and then ignore but Bianca never needed advice. He came into the werk room perfect and was perfect when crowned. Just like Courtney he went on the show for exposure not to win. I don’t think either cared/care about Drag Race. Good for them,use Rupaul like he uses all the queens
I think part of how Chad really sold the 'over it' Cher was that 'Cher' seemed to be having fun with it, like, laughing while saying chickenshit gigs etc, instead of putting up a cold wall. "Lol I can't fuckin believe I'm here :'D" attitude vs Beyonce/Pink/Raven's Paris's etc all being like "I can't fucking believe I'm here >("
The one piece of advice the Ru consistently gave Heidi that she (thankfully) ignored was to change her name. I don't see how Ru just couldn't get it. So glad Heidi decided to stay in the "Closet!"
I'm literally in bed with my gentleman and my dog and I STILL physically covered my eyes when y'all brought up Utica's roast. I LOVE Utica so much, which made that disaster hurt even worse.
This was not advice, but one of my favorites was during the Season 10 reunion. RuPaul kept asking Miz Cracker if she regretted not doing her lip sync sexy to match the song and she just kept saying no.
Not to defend Miz but at least she knows her limits and knows she would look ridiculous trying to be "sexy" it's just not her , I feel like she goes for more cutesy then sexy. Maybe the shape (padding jokes aside) is sexy but nothing else Cracker sells is sex. Kylie Sonique sells sex , I know a few others do but it's a very specific niche and it's not Crackers so I think she was right in saying she chose to do the interpretation she did.
I really wanted to like Utica on her season, but it was the fact that she just didn't listen to anyone trying to give her advice.. I know she gets put in the 'weird girl' category with like Crystal Methyd and others, but Crystal actually listened to the critiques.. 😬
I love when our favorites of the past come back to Drag Race! Asia O'Hara was emcee at Drive'nDrag last night in Portland. She was funny! The crowd loved her! Everyone was so happy to be there and the weather couldn't have been better. The show was great, the crowd was great and the overall atmosphere was one of joyous celebration. Great vibes all around. So impressed with Voss Events and how their staff handled getting people parked in the right place and the whole thing, really. My only complaint was the show was way too short! And the line at merch was too long for a lot of folks. Good job on compiling this list. Learning to recognize good advice would help all of us!
I'm convinced that Utica is neurodivergent in some way. Watching her interaction with Michelle and Loni she seemed genuinely to think that their comments were all part of the 'game' - her reactions and mannerisms were those of someone playing along, like when good friends are ribbing each other. She seemed genuinely just not to realise that Michelle and Loni were serious. It looked to me like someone who finds interpreting social cues difficult, which would also explain why she struggled to know the difference between a funny roast and just being flat out rude. There were other times on the show when I thought the same thing but this was the clearest example to me.
I literally just said the same. We have a hard time taking critiques as personal attacks, and often don't understand why people react differently. Another example being the enjoyment of lip syncing. First of all, being in a pandemic, most of those performers haven't performed as much especially those who aren't in major cities, but also, for many of us neurodivergent people, dancing is a way of not only self expression, but a way to regulate emotions so it would make sense to not be worried about a lip sync for your life, or feel good afterward if it's something you enjoy. Also just being weird, I was called weird and lazy before my ADHD diagnosis, but also tend to have difficulties with conversations. I related to her both in struggles and in style.
When they did the commercials and everybody was saying how bad Utica's was. I thought it was hysterical, I thought hers was the best one because I laughed so much. And of course I'm autistic. So yeah I assumed she is too.
@@bricksloth6920 Yeah, I liked the commercial too. Different style of humour, but not objectively bad. The roast definitely needed work, but I liked that commercial and the recurring jokes about the cow.
@@jlbeeen Thank you for posting this. I'm neurotypical (and definitely no expert on these matters) so was hesitant to post it. It's reassuring to hear that I might not be off the mark! I hadn't made the connection to her enjoyment of lip synching but that makes so much sense. I do find it fascinating how there is so much difference in how we experience the world, yet as a whole we tend to be competely unable to consider things from another person's perspective. I found all the criticism aimed at Utica so unfair for this reason.
Hi autistic person as well, totally agree - I found myself relating to Utica a lot throughout the season. I disagree on finding her roast funny though, I had to skip it because it was so hard to watch & reminded me of myself bombing in front of a lot of people. However it is a good rule of thumb to keep in mind it may be rude to speculate people's neurodivergency !
The only name I liked ru give Heidi was Aphrodite but I much preferred her original name and glad she kept it, even tho I don’t think they were ever Serious about changing her name
But what’s relevant about that? Even if Ru had known who Bindi Irwin was (and he knew who she was, I mean, the last name Irwin is very famous for a certain animal lover family that lives in Australia... who else would it have been?) Art’s performance wasn’t funny; and besides he didn’t look like Bindi and he didn’t act like Bindi, and ok, you don’t have to 100% look and act like the character as long as you’re funny but... he failed at that.
@@alorockss I’m not saying Art did a good job, but Ru hasn’t known references (Poppy and Moira Rose immediately come to mind) and I 100% agree, the performances weren’t great, but then he keeps throwing a reference to Crystal Methyd while Crystal was in a place she couldn’t look it up! (In the competition). It just feels like... as someone who is THE HOST of a show that is full of pop culture references, shouldn’t Ru be staying on top of things? Maybe I’m expecting too much, but he has a whole team! At least after going through the work room and finding out who people are being he could watch like a little 3-5 minute clip of each person if she isn’t aware while she gets put together?
@@Aitaitaitai He is on top of things most of the time but there’s stuff that just flies under the radar, you know? Pop culture has a new influencer every week nowadays so it’s hard to keep up. And that’s totally normal. And they do get briefed during the show, the producers briefed them about Moira and Poppy and a lot more. And he did know who Bindi IRWIN is. Besides, Rhys is there, he would know who Bindi Irwin is and would have told Ru. But also, it doesn’t matter if people don’t know your character as long as you make it funny. Like Ru didn’t exactly know who Sophia the robot was, he just thought it was just a robot and he was so against Gigi doing it, and when snatch game came Gigi made Ru laugh and it didn’t matter if he knew who Sophia (Maria) was because he was entertained. If Art would have been funny it wouldn’t have mattered that Ru didn’t know who Bindi was.
@@alorockss okay, if they are getting briefed on them, then it’s just sad because he seems to rely on Michelle a lot to help him out in the edit 💁🏻 that’s all I felt was needed. Enough information to know. During the judging for season 12, Jonathan Bennett said he looked up Poppy after and it was accurate. It doesn’t mean it was good, but he at least knew who that was. I feel like that would be a helpful understanding for the judges to have, wouldn’t you agree? This really has nothing to do with performances in my opinion. It just has to do with Ru knowing his references. During season 12 when he kept giving the El Debarge reference to Crystal but Crystal had no way to look that up or know who it was. It just seems like an odd standard 🤷🏻
@@Aitaitaitai Ru had a general understanding of who Bindi Irwin is, which is the understanding that the rest of the world has, she’s Steve Irwin’s daughter and she’s a conservationist. That’s enough to know for a Snatch Game. Then he got briefed more about her and he made his decision based on the shitty performance and the lipsync. Which is understandable and Art is just being bitter about it. And the ElDebarge thing is just like an inside joke for Ru that was turned into a gag, even the queens adopted the gag after. It was something dumb. It’s not like Ru was forcing Crystal to know who ElDebarge is or else he would have eliminated her. He knew Crystal didn’t know and Crystal was a good sport about it and played along and now we have a good meme out of it. But that doesn’t have to do with Ru not knowing the specifics about Bindi. Ru makes references all the time and explains them if other people don’t get them. He doesn’t expect the world to know all of his references, like the Ivy Winters thing. And him telling Crystal he should have done ElDebarge for snatch game was just a joke.
Asia could have done the #PoorMichelle and ran with that, I feel there’s so much material. Beyoncé really does seem to be cursed 😝 she’s (Bey’s) fierce AF and uber talented but I’m not sure about having enough of a personality to run with for something like Snatch Game.
But one thing is taking a picture with an actress and another one is knowing them to the point of having lunch together which would imply a level of closeness which the actress said they didn’t have.
Not David Edinburgh 😂 Great list, I just rewatched Season 7. I can understand why the other Queens told Kennedy not to do Little Richard though, before that the judges had been very negative about male drag (Alaska in barnyard buddies, Milk's male/androgynous drag. Also sometimes Ru's advice is just terrible. Telling Crystal Methyd to do El DeBarge? Telling Heidi to change her name! Ginny Lemon to do sexy?
I feel like in Utica's case it was not so much as not listening to the advice, but just being really delusional, not even hearing the advice. I love Utica, but girl... that humour.
I thought Utica was very funny because everyone at my school roast like that, but It was very disrespectful I feel like to tell Utica that she was booming
Yeah, that always struck me as odd. Vanjie said that she was listening to the judges on what they were telling her, but she just insisted on those damn one piece suits all the time and I never understood why. Vanjie is beautiful with a lot of style, so I don't know why she never really showed off anything new.
@@fjorgyn7438 she did say in the reunion that she travel a lot and she didn't have time to get every looks that's why she have swim suit and she also afraid that if she doesn't show her shape she can go home but her zodiac sign runway is the best on that episode
@@fjorgyn7438 Well she isn't a seamstress , so she could only work with what she already brought . With that being said , if she planned on making it far, she should have realized that she had 5+ similar looks that were a one piece or a leotard.
I mean tbh Ben Dela Creme couldn't do a convincing posh English accent IMO, but she did good enough for USians. It was hilarious and iconic, but it was not a good bougie English accent
Dan Savage was one of my most favorite walkthrough guests o.o That's why S4 is still my most favorite political challenge because they got some seriousness to it.
Maria the robot, not Sophia. I love your vids and content! Been really sick lately (not COVID) and am waiting for neuro/cardio surgery) look forward to my drag content! You guys always make me laugh. I just worry about you guys during COVID going to L.A. and also to Vegas if you haven’t been immunized/vaccinated. If you have, as a Canadian MD where we are seeing almost a 4th wave coming in certain areas here and promoting it would help with hesitancy. I work as an anesthesiologist and work with A LOT of pulmonologists, respiratory specialists and in the ORs, ICUs and many units I’m involved in putting people on ventilators, pre and during COVID. Currently on medical leave and hopefully my surgery will be in less than a month, but recovery is 3-6 months. I just want you to be safe, because, since on leave especially, you and Scarlett are part of my routine of TH-cam as my four month old is on down time, and she’s been watching old seasons of drag race with me and seems to like the lights and colours of it all! I just want to say you guys are great! I hope you stay healthy and well! I was also wondering if you were going to address the Lucy speculations in a fashion similar to Cardi G. Just to get an understanding, as all info I’m able look up is vague? Keep doing you Mera and Scarlett! Love you guys (including baby Emma, Chloe and the pups - I have two black pugs myself, the dog is such a cutie during your viewings!) keep up the great work safely!
Just started watching the vid and had to pop in the comments just to say Mera i loooove your sequins n leather outfit here! You're giving me alt 90s alt girl vibes a la Shirley Manson / Courtney Love with a side order of Spice Girls and I think it looks *fab* on you x
Am i the only one who didn't like the Vivienne going off about how Sum Ting Wong should have taken her advice. Like duh hindsight is 20/20, also she seemed so genuinely mad that this girl followed her own intuition and not what Vivienne said.
I don't think he's very well known in the U.S. I find it interesting because I'm from Canada and we're literally attached. He's well known in Canada, or at least I think he is, but we're more familiar with British pop culture than the States. I don't know if it's because we're part of the Commonwealth, and we got and still get a decent amount of British programming. I find that a lot of Canadian original shows are closer to British shows than U.S.
I think the most Notorious is UK3 Snatch Game episode. Ru telling Choriza to do Cher, Choriza made the right choice, but She was put in the bottom because She didn't listen to Ru
I see the thumbnail and i know utica roast is 1000% there i am big utica fan so its really sucks but i mean u remember for something like fashion but also this but come give us most legendary line on drag race Rupaul can you stand up
nope...i strongly disagree....the only one who can do Beyonce is Jade Nova/Keyonce...look it up. the slay bells video. she also does lots of other impersonations. singing and talking..all are amazingly accurate and funny.
just a little fyi, gigi played maria the robot. not sophia. edit: I understand sophia the robot is the real name but miss goode was portraying her as maria.
I was so disappointed by Aiden Zayne's Patricia Quinn. Because honestly, regardless of if people know her or not, she is coocoo for cocoa puffs. She has the type of personality that SHOULD'VE translated well to Snatch Game. She reminds me of a combination between Thorgy Thor's scattered-ness and Tammie Brown's quirky alt POV. The way Ben played Maggie Smith (as the Dowager) actually seemed like some of the oddball shit Pat Quinn says. Mostly because she has that actor pretentiousness, but it is so batty that it comes across as charming.
Tbh I’m not a fan of queens doing men for the snatch game. Like Kennedy worked cause she was very dragged up to look like little Richard, same with the Vivienne as Donald Trump. But when queens take the Dr Seuss/Richard Simmons/Bob Ross/etc route it feels easier than what the other queens are doing. Like technically Jessica Wild is the first queen to play a cis man since she was playing RuPaul on the season 2 snatch game, but she was playing Ru in drag. In Down Under, Kita wore glasses and a cheap fake beard and a grey suit it just felt so lazy compared to the queens who were contouring and painting their mug to look like someone else like Scarlet who was sitting behind her with her full mug done to make her look more like Jennifer Coolidge even though she’s a man outside of drag
I’m glad Heidi ignored Ru and kept her full name...
I LOVE how Heidi handled it. She just agreed during filming and carried on. Well done!
I’m surprised that Heidi didn’t slap Ru whenever she said she hated her name
@@adamjustadam same. It was SO insulting.
@@adamjustadam it’s not that serious lol
AGREED. came here to stay this
Don't forget AS2 when Ru tried to scare Tatianna into not doing her talent show because Tati couldn't properly explain what she was doing 😭
did it aired? i dont remember that
@@notearslefttocryy4194 yeah it did
@@notearslefttocryy4194 Not only did it air, but it is a fundamental performance that DEFINED Tatianna in the eyes of fans.
@@OscarSotoJr i meant if the bit of ru talking her out of doing the spoken word performance aired, because i dont remember jsjs
@@notearslefttocryy4194 OOHHHHH! You’re right, it was a deleted scene. 😞
I mean Gigi really had the cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption to say that to Ru and stick to her guns. And she had every reason to because she was hilarious.
At least Mimi took Tammie’s advice to change her costume change it around, even if the second costume was awful anyway
LMAOOO
i cant breathe
But did the judges took her advice of walking children in nature tho?
But tammie is walking children in nature right now
"I understand your concerns but I don't have the same concerns". At the time when Gigi said it I laughed, but now I'm like, damn this needs to be my motto in life.
One notable one was Jiggly doing a serious version of her magazine cover when everyone told her to do a funny version.
The way Gigi ignoret mama Ru and won the SnatchGame will always be iconic
I knew IMMEDIATELY what Gigi was going for when she was talking to Ru about her concept. I knew she was gonna slay!
BenDela and Kennedy too
aiden zhanes snatch was so embarrassing and to top it off patricia quinn said she found it offensive and that shes never met aiden
Omg 😱 that’s hilarious
Awkward
Probably because Aiden didn't make her character funny: She just kept on repeating how she is old, a heavy drug addict, confused as to what is going on and cranky. Ben's interpretation of Maggie Smith in Downtown Abbey also was a cranky, old, sometimes confused character but there were more layers, she made jokes, she laughed about herself and it was overall just a fun interaction.
I still love that top pic of the other girls reacting to Utica asking Ru to stand up. It just ranges from horrified to Rosé smiling like “oh this is gonna be good” 😂
Oh my god I didn't notice that until now. xD
okay for the record, i thought that was hilarious
@@_peepee_ oh, it was, but boy was it a ballsy choice!
That was my personal read of the show, however that couldn't save Utica
olivia is also smiling
There's a fine line between confidence and delusion, and you can definitely see where these queens fell on either side of that line lol
I always remember then queens of season 11 didn't listen Ru about doing church of Mariah Carey. They didn't know nothing about Mariah and it was the worst acting challenge ever.
Also didn't pay off for Ginny Lemon from UK second season. Ginny took Rupaul's advice and tried to be sexy. The look was really bad.
When Ru tried REALLY hard to talk Gigi out of doing a robot for her snatch game and then it ended up being one of the best performances ever
One of the best ever? No hun💀
@@djehall definitely original
@@djehall It's called an opinion and we all have them :)
@@djehall yes it is DEFINITELY one of the best performances ever on the snatch game.
@@djehall gigi fans are so deluded chile
Remember when Ru told Crystal to do a character on snatch game that she’d never heard of?
If Aiden was absolutely stuck on Patricia Quinn, she probably should have taken a similar approach to Dela’s Maggie Smith, and kept her in the character everyone knows Patricia Quinn best for; Magenta.
Kennedy changed the landscape of snatch game; criminally underrated!
That top on mera with the choker and the bands on her arms, ridiculously cute. It’s giving both hero and villain from a sort of fighting game. Tekken? Street fighter? Mk? Not sure but that energy for sure. Gorgeous.
I love it too! Sparkling ferocity!
Reminds me of Fighting Vipers' Candy.
As Bianca said when Rupaul is giving advice just smile nod and then ignore but Bianca never needed advice. He came into the werk room perfect and was perfect when crowned. Just like Courtney he went on the show for exposure not to win. I don’t think either cared/care about Drag Race. Good for them,use Rupaul like he uses all the queens
I think part of how Chad really sold the 'over it' Cher was that 'Cher' seemed to be having fun with it, like, laughing while saying chickenshit gigs etc, instead of putting up a cold wall. "Lol I can't fuckin believe I'm here :'D" attitude vs Beyonce/Pink/Raven's Paris's etc all being like "I can't fucking believe I'm here >("
It helps that Cher and Chad are actually close to one another.
The 1 dislike is from Eric
False!
The one piece of advice the Ru consistently gave Heidi that she (thankfully) ignored was to change her name. I don't see how Ru just couldn't get it. So glad Heidi decided to stay in the "Closet!"
I'm literally in bed with my gentleman and my dog and I STILL physically covered my eyes when y'all brought up Utica's roast. I LOVE Utica so much, which made that disaster hurt even worse.
Crisis Control is one of my ALL TIME favorite moments of any kind from the entire series! Go ahead.... Control Yourself!
I cackle every single time!
Love that extra dose of Thorazine! 🤣
@@Trix897 who wouldn’t? It shields the psyche from pain!
This was not advice, but one of my favorites was during the Season 10 reunion. RuPaul kept asking Miz Cracker if she regretted not doing her lip sync sexy to match the song and she just kept saying no.
Not to defend Miz but at least she knows her limits and knows she would look ridiculous trying to be "sexy" it's just not her , I feel like she goes for more cutesy then sexy. Maybe the shape (padding jokes aside) is sexy but nothing else Cracker sells is sex. Kylie Sonique sells sex , I know a few others do but it's a very specific niche and it's not Crackers so I think she was right in saying she chose to do the interpretation she did.
I was waiting for Ginney Lemon but I realised this was who ignored them and not who should've.
I really wanted to like Utica on her season, but it was the fact that she just didn't listen to anyone trying to give her advice.. I know she gets put in the 'weird girl' category with like Crystal Methyd and others, but Crystal actually listened to the critiques.. 😬
Just got into it yes! The intro has to be about Utica haha, let's see 👀
LOL! Burnthewood is a rough translation of my French maiden name. And somehow my husband decided to stick with me ;) Love you ladies!
I love when our favorites of the past come back to Drag Race! Asia O'Hara was emcee at Drive'nDrag last night in Portland. She was funny! The crowd loved her! Everyone was so happy to be there and the weather couldn't have been better. The show was great, the crowd was great and the overall atmosphere was one of joyous celebration. Great vibes all around. So impressed with Voss Events and how their staff handled getting people parked in the right place and the whole thing, really. My only complaint was the show was way too short! And the line at merch was too long for a lot of folks.
Good job on compiling this list. Learning to recognize good advice would help all of us!
Have they done a “Worst snatch game character’s” video yet because if they didn’t I need to see it ASAP
It would be painful to watch. Bad enough seeing it the first time.
I'm convinced that Utica is neurodivergent in some way. Watching her interaction with Michelle and Loni she seemed genuinely to think that their comments were all part of the 'game' - her reactions and mannerisms were those of someone playing along, like when good friends are ribbing each other. She seemed genuinely just not to realise that Michelle and Loni were serious.
It looked to me like someone who finds interpreting social cues difficult, which would also explain why she struggled to know the difference between a funny roast and just being flat out rude. There were other times on the show when I thought the same thing but this was the clearest example to me.
I literally just said the same. We have a hard time taking critiques as personal attacks, and often don't understand why people react differently. Another example being the enjoyment of lip syncing. First of all, being in a pandemic, most of those performers haven't performed as much especially those who aren't in major cities, but also, for many of us neurodivergent people, dancing is a way of not only self expression, but a way to regulate emotions so it would make sense to not be worried about a lip sync for your life, or feel good afterward if it's something you enjoy. Also just being weird, I was called weird and lazy before my ADHD diagnosis, but also tend to have difficulties with conversations. I related to her both in struggles and in style.
When they did the commercials and everybody was saying how bad Utica's was. I thought it was hysterical, I thought hers was the best one because I laughed so much.
And of course I'm autistic.
So yeah I assumed she is too.
@@bricksloth6920 Yeah, I liked the commercial too. Different style of humour, but not objectively bad. The roast definitely needed work, but I liked that commercial and the recurring jokes about the cow.
@@jlbeeen Thank you for posting this. I'm neurotypical (and definitely no expert on these matters) so was hesitant to post it. It's reassuring to hear that I might not be off the mark! I hadn't made the connection to her enjoyment of lip synching but that makes so much sense.
I do find it fascinating how there is so much difference in how we experience the world, yet as a whole we tend to be competely unable to consider things from another person's perspective. I found all the criticism aimed at Utica so unfair for this reason.
Hi autistic person as well, totally agree - I found myself relating to Utica a lot throughout the season. I disagree on finding her roast funny though, I had to skip it because it was so hard to watch & reminded me of myself bombing in front of a lot of people. However it is a good rule of thumb to keep in mind it may be rude to speculate people's neurodivergency !
The only name I liked ru give Heidi was Aphrodite but I much preferred her original name and glad she kept it, even tho I don’t think they were ever Serious about changing her name
“Trixie” would take her answer, after the show in the parking lot. Lol
Love you “trixie”
I love Ru, but I am so done with her saying "10000 doolahs."
Okay but I feel like you need to talk about Art Symone speaking about how Ru didn’t know who Bindi Irwin is
But what’s relevant about that? Even if Ru had known who Bindi Irwin was (and he knew who she was, I mean, the last name Irwin is very famous for a certain animal lover family that lives in Australia... who else would it have been?) Art’s performance wasn’t funny; and besides he didn’t look like Bindi and he didn’t act like Bindi, and ok, you don’t have to 100% look and act like the character as long as you’re funny but... he failed at that.
@@alorockss I’m not saying Art did a good job, but Ru hasn’t known references (Poppy and Moira Rose immediately come to mind) and I 100% agree, the performances weren’t great, but then he keeps throwing a reference to Crystal Methyd while Crystal was in a place she couldn’t look it up! (In the competition). It just feels like... as someone who is THE HOST of a show that is full of pop culture references, shouldn’t Ru be staying on top of things?
Maybe I’m expecting too much, but he has a whole team! At least after going through the work room and finding out who people are being he could watch like a little 3-5 minute clip of each person if she isn’t aware while she gets put together?
@@Aitaitaitai He is on top of things most of the time but there’s stuff that just flies under the radar, you know? Pop culture has a new influencer every week nowadays so it’s hard to keep up. And that’s totally normal. And they do get briefed during the show, the producers briefed them about Moira and Poppy and a lot more. And he did know who Bindi IRWIN is. Besides, Rhys is there, he would know who Bindi Irwin is and would have told Ru.
But also, it doesn’t matter if people don’t know your character as long as you make it funny. Like Ru didn’t exactly know who Sophia the robot was, he just thought it was just a robot and he was so against Gigi doing it, and when snatch game came Gigi made Ru laugh and it didn’t matter if he knew who Sophia (Maria) was because he was entertained.
If Art would have been funny it wouldn’t have mattered that Ru didn’t know who Bindi was.
@@alorockss okay, if they are getting briefed on them, then it’s just sad because he seems to rely on Michelle a lot to help him out in the edit 💁🏻 that’s all I felt was needed. Enough information to know. During the judging for season 12, Jonathan Bennett said he looked up Poppy after and it was accurate. It doesn’t mean it was good, but he at least knew who that was. I feel like that would be a helpful understanding for the judges to have, wouldn’t you agree?
This really has nothing to do with performances in my opinion. It just has to do with Ru knowing his references. During season 12 when he kept giving the El Debarge reference to Crystal but Crystal had no way to look that up or know who it was. It just seems like an odd standard 🤷🏻
@@Aitaitaitai Ru had a general understanding of who Bindi Irwin is, which is the understanding that the rest of the world has, she’s Steve Irwin’s daughter and she’s a conservationist. That’s enough to know for a Snatch Game. Then he got briefed more about her and he made his decision based on the shitty performance and the lipsync. Which is understandable and Art is just being bitter about it.
And the ElDebarge thing is just like an inside joke for Ru that was turned into a gag, even the queens adopted the gag after. It was something dumb. It’s not like Ru was forcing Crystal to know who ElDebarge is or else he would have eliminated her. He knew Crystal didn’t know and Crystal was a good sport about it and played along and now we have a good meme out of it. But that doesn’t have to do with Ru not knowing the specifics about Bindi. Ru makes references all the time and explains them if other people don’t get them. He doesn’t expect the world to know all of his references, like the Ivy Winters thing. And him telling Crystal he should have done ElDebarge for snatch game was just a joke.
Asia could have done the #PoorMichelle and ran with that, I feel there’s so much material. Beyoncé really does seem to be cursed 😝 she’s (Bey’s) fierce AF and uber talented but I’m not sure about having enough of a personality to run with for something like Snatch Game.
She likes to make sure she’s presented a very specific way. She doesn’t have a lot of goofy moments.
I really love Asia. She has one of the most beautiful faces of all Ru girls. But she should have been in the bottom 2 that week.
9:55 Aiden did in fact post a photo of them together on her Twitter so they actually did meet
But one thing is taking a picture with an actress and another one is knowing them to the point of having lunch together which would imply a level of closeness which the actress said they didn’t have.
Not David Edinburgh 😂
Great list, I just rewatched Season 7. I can understand why the other Queens told Kennedy not to do Little Richard though, before that the judges had been very negative about male drag (Alaska in barnyard buddies, Milk's male/androgynous drag.
Also sometimes Ru's advice is just terrible. Telling Crystal Methyd to do El DeBarge? Telling Heidi to change her name! Ginny Lemon to do sexy?
I feel like in Utica's case it was not so much as not listening to the advice, but just being really delusional, not even hearing the advice.
I love Utica, but girl... that humour.
I thought Utica was very funny because everyone at my school roast like that, but It was very disrespectful I feel like to tell Utica that she was booming
I think Ru probably gives other girls more specific advise too but they didn’t utilize it as much as Heidi so there’s not much point in showing it
You should include miss vanjie swim suit on runway every time
Yeah, that always struck me as odd. Vanjie said that she was listening to the judges on what they were telling her, but she just insisted on those damn one piece suits all the time and I never understood why. Vanjie is beautiful with a lot of style, so I don't know why she never really showed off anything new.
@@fjorgyn7438 she did say in the reunion that she travel a lot and she didn't have time to get every looks that's why she have swim suit and she also afraid that if she doesn't show her shape she can go home but her zodiac sign runway is the best on that episode
@@fjorgyn7438 Well she isn't a seamstress , so she could only work with what she already brought . With that being said , if she planned on making it far, she should have realized that she had 5+ similar looks that were a one piece or a leotard.
I mean tbh Ben Dela Creme couldn't do a convincing posh English accent IMO, but she did good enough for USians.
It was hilarious and iconic, but it was not a good bougie English accent
Except she wasn't trying to be posh, she was trying to be Maggie Smith and she nailed it to the wall, as far as I'm concerned.
Dan Savage was one of my most favorite walkthrough guests o.o That's why S4 is still my most favorite political challenge because they got some seriousness to it.
Mera Mangle for RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 or 15 or 16.
I love Scarlett and miss her when she is not on the show. The 2 of you compliment each other not combat.
I want the Mera Merch Mangled Morning Mug!
Maria the robot, not Sophia. I love your vids and content! Been really sick lately (not COVID) and am waiting for neuro/cardio surgery) look forward to my drag content! You guys always make me laugh. I just worry about you guys during COVID going to L.A. and also to Vegas if you haven’t been immunized/vaccinated. If you have, as a Canadian MD where we are seeing almost a 4th wave coming in certain areas here and promoting it would help with hesitancy. I work as an anesthesiologist and work with A LOT of pulmonologists, respiratory specialists and in the ORs, ICUs and many units I’m involved in putting people on ventilators, pre and during COVID. Currently on medical leave and hopefully my surgery will be in less than a month, but recovery is 3-6 months. I just want you to be safe, because, since on leave especially, you and Scarlett are part of my routine of TH-cam as my four month old is on down time, and she’s been watching old seasons of drag race with me and seems to like the lights and colours of it all! I just want to say you guys are great! I hope you stay healthy and well! I was also wondering if you were going to address the Lucy speculations in a fashion similar to Cardi G. Just to get an understanding, as all info I’m able look up is vague? Keep doing you Mera and Scarlett! Love you guys (including baby Emma, Chloe and the pups - I have two black pugs myself, the dog is such a cutie during your viewings!) keep up the great work safely!
Feel better, heal fast, blessings sent!
Just started watching the vid and had to pop in the comments just to say Mera i loooove your sequins n leather outfit here! You're giving me alt 90s alt girl vibes a la Shirley Manson / Courtney Love with a side order of Spice Girls and I think it looks *fab* on you x
Am i the only one who didn't like the Vivienne going off about how Sum Ting Wong should have taken her advice. Like duh hindsight is 20/20, also she seemed so genuinely mad that this girl followed her own intuition and not what Vivienne said.
Uticas roast was really bad but I still love her
Fave time of the week ❤️✨
Pretty soon the entire screen is going to be filled up with fully mangled members 😂
Hey Bestie Mera and Bestie Scarlet 🥰😏
Wonder if anyone would do Beyoncé as Foxy Cleopatra from Austin Powers’ Goldmember?
I love the way you say “content” and “like the video” super creative!
How does this list not have jiggly?
Dela was cut off apparently, not sure where i heard this but she said im not Good at doing a British accent unless im doing Maggie Smiths accent.
HEY BESTIES!
Katya's ad was brilliant!
THAT TIP AT THE BEGINNING THO GURL 💀💀💀
YES !!! Maya Rudolph is the best Beyoncé !
David Edinburgh 😅 I love you Mera xx
Haha I guess he's not so well known Stateside?
@@aziraphaleangel haha probably. I'm also a Scot living in America these days so I always find the American pronunciation of Edinburgh funny 😅
If he were Scottish. LOL
I don't think he's very well known in the U.S. I find it interesting because I'm from Canada and we're literally attached.
He's well known in Canada, or at least I think he is, but we're more familiar with British pop culture than the States. I don't know if it's because we're part of the Commonwealth, and we got and still get a decent amount of British programming. I find that a lot of Canadian original shows are closer to British shows than U.S.
@@ericap1098 coming from a fellow Canadian, you think anyone watches anything educational in the US? Hell no.
everyday i'm grateful that dela stuck with maggie smith
I think the most Notorious is UK3 Snatch Game episode. Ru telling Choriza to do Cher, Choriza made the right choice, but She was put in the bottom because She didn't listen to Ru
I'm not surprised that many of these are from Snatch Game 💀
Only way Utica could’ve bombed more is if she had fracking jokes
And I OOP lol
cute video. i always have to skip the first 5 minutes tho kdkskskskdk
You didn't mention the vanjie tongue pop that just made the Gigi/ru conversation even better
I love Mera in this hair!! Essential Mera xx
you should do a best and worst video about the guests who do a walk threw with ru
Welcome to the stage the legendary drag king David Edinburgh
Girl you mean David Attenborough
I mean, it's a reality show, I think that's why Utica never listened to the judges' opinions.
Utica dodged their warnings like they were potholes in the street.
As a gal in Seattle, I agree. Dan Savage sucks the life out of the room.
However, he does write a great column.
I wait for ur videos everyday ❤❤❤
HOW HAVE YOU ONLY GOT 35K SUBS... Absolutely adore your channel
Mera where is your accent from? (I’m from the UK so I don’t know US accents)
You guys should look up Jade Novah
She’s really the only one who can do Beyoncé
I see the thumbnail and i know utica roast is 1000% there i am big utica fan so its really sucks but i mean u remember for something like fashion but also this but come give us most legendary line on drag race Rupaul can you stand up
I love love seeing u smile Scarlett and hearing ur laugh its to adorable and i hope u know how much we all love u !❤💋👍🔥🌹💐🤘
nope...i strongly disagree....the only one who can do Beyonce is Jade Nova/Keyonce...look it up. the slay bells video. she also does lots of other impersonations. singing and talking..all are amazingly accurate and funny.
Don't forget on season 9 when Ru was not getting Sofia Vergara from Cynthia just in the werkroom walkthrough
keep up the great work!!!!
“Take that thing off your face” “i’d like to keep it on”
just a little fyi, gigi played maria the robot. not sophia.
edit: I understand sophia the robot is the real name but miss goode was portraying her as maria.
Oh I'm early! A nice treat to finishing up grad school
Have class but this is more important 😘☺️❤️
When I go on a Mera Mangle watching spree my thighs hurt by the end of it
“You know what trixie would do? Say your name, Eric”
Awesome vid Mera
Will there be a reaction to Legendary S2? If so get ready for the gags😍❤️❤️❤️
David Attenborough is "Atten-bu-rah"
Isn’t the robots name maria, not sophia? :/
I was so disappointed by Aiden Zayne's Patricia Quinn. Because honestly, regardless of if people know her or not, she is coocoo for cocoa puffs. She has the type of personality that SHOULD'VE translated well to Snatch Game. She reminds me of a combination between Thorgy Thor's scattered-ness and Tammie Brown's quirky alt POV. The way Ben played Maggie Smith (as the Dowager) actually seemed like some of the oddball shit Pat Quinn says. Mostly because she has that actor pretentiousness, but it is so batty that it comes across as charming.
The drag queen is the voice of Bucy channel the one who is obsessed with theory videos that make no sense 😂
I didn’t like Utica for a while after the roast! It was just mean! Especially towards Lonnie Love! I’m glad she apologized
Iconic queens!
Yess a pool shark person would play it that way!!
Olivia lux was advised not to do nice she still did
Tbh I’m not a fan of queens doing men for the snatch game. Like Kennedy worked cause she was very dragged up to look like little Richard, same with the Vivienne as Donald Trump. But when queens take the Dr Seuss/Richard Simmons/Bob Ross/etc route it feels easier than what the other queens are doing. Like technically Jessica Wild is the first queen to play a cis man since she was playing RuPaul on the season 2 snatch game, but she was playing Ru in drag. In Down Under, Kita wore glasses and a cheap fake beard and a grey suit it just felt so lazy compared to the queens who were contouring and painting their mug to look like someone else like Scarlet who was sitting behind her with her full mug done to make her look more like Jennifer Coolidge even though she’s a man outside of drag
Who would you pick as your top three so far?!